Hyderabad: BJP national president Amit Shah will meet families of the people who suffered at the hands of Maoists and Razakars in Teratpalli and Gundrampally villages in Nalgonda district during his three-day tour of the state.
The meeting is aimed at ruffling the feathers of Maoists and the MIM, while sending out a strong message to their sympathisers.
The BJP chief will kick off his tour on Monday by paying tributes to Gundagoni Mysaiah Goud, former BJP state secretary who was shot dead by the Peoples War Group on March 27, 1999 when organising a weavers’ meet.
On Wednesday, he will pay tributes to victims of Razakars in Gundrampalli village of Chityal mandal in the district. Scores of people were killed by Razakars in 1948 and bodies dumped in a well by Maqbool and his group, the agents of Khasim Razvi.
“Amit Shah’s target is BJP victory in the 2019 polls. His tour will focus on strengthening the party from the grassroots level, review implementation of NDA schemes, interact with party leaders, workers and other sections etc.,” TS BJP president K. Laxman said.
Dr Laxman, who interacted with select media persons on the eve of the BJP chief’s visit, asserted there was a political “political vacuum” in TS and BJP is the alternative to the TRS.
“We will cash in on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s success and failures of the TRS government,” he said.
“This is Amit Shah’s fourth trip to Telangana since I became state BJP president. He will make another three-day trip in September. We are not luring Congress, TD and TRS leaders. If someone has faith in BJP ideology, Modi’s programmes and policies, they are welcome,” he said.
Dr Laxman added, “BJP will go alone in Telangana. There will be no tie-up with the TD or TRS. Congress is marginalised. There are no alliance talks with the TRS. It’s just rumours.”
Asked if he would become the CM if the BJP wins in TS, he said, “The party will decide.”
Referring to a BJP meeting in the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency represented by MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, he said the plan was to tackle MIM. “We won in Assam where 40 per cent of the population is Muslim and in Manipur, where 60 per are Christians. Minorities have backed the BJP,” he said.
On the recent identification of ISIS sympathisers, he said Hyderabad has become a den for anti-national forces.
